Long Range Committee Tree Plan and Grounds Department Tree Management Plan

 Over the past few weeks, a great deal of activity has been occurring on the grounds at Glen Echo CC. Its been quite a while since I've made a post so here we go. We've had a combination of Long Range Committee tree work taking place as well and our normal removal of dying trees that our staff handles with assistance from our contractor or we do completely on our own depending upon the size of the tree. Below are some examples of the before and after shots that has been taking place.

Trees short right were removed, a dying ash and large sweetgum about 200 yards on right and 3 white pines mixed in with the pines about 150 yards on the left.

Updated view after removals. Goals were to remove trees at start of fairway to allow balls struck to the right beyond the trees to see where they end after they come to rest. Also removal of trees that keep the ball from advancing forward. Normally a high handicapped

We contracted removals with Gamma Tree Experts for the Long Range Committees work on hole 7/8. There were 20 total trees removed from this area with 16 of them between the 7th/8th fairway and 7th green and 8th tee. This still left 10 very large specimen trees in this area. The photos are outstanding seeing the differences before and after.

7 off of tee with 5 trees removed out of right side at start of fairway about to about 275 yards to 7 green. Notice left by red tee Maples are still there but were removed earlier today.

3 trees on the left removed. You can now see down the left side of the hole.

Approach on #7 before 3 of 4 pines were removed. Large middle was left in place but 3 removed.

What were are left with is stunning, even when dormant. Shapes and curves along right side of green are visible back 200 yards or more. Also will allow the bunker to come more into play since balls won't be blocked by the line of trees.